Category: Life

Immigrants have come to the US or other countries from their country of origin. Most of them as adults with their cultures already embedded in them. I came to the United States 13 years ago, as an adult. I am a Nigerian, though now a US citizen. All I knew when I arrived was the […]

My name is Ama and I have Mommy Brain. Mommy Brain. Loosely defined, it is a mysterious medical condition where a human postpartum female’s mind is so overwhelmed with care giving tasks that she develops a pervasive, persistent personality change, often affecting her ability to function properly within society. I wept like a baby, dear […]

Speaking with several people I come in contact with, several of them admit they were or are unaware that they have the option of extending their stay in the United States. The Law Africans who arrive in the United States on a visitor’s visa, either as a student, foreign worker or for simple pleasure, must be […]

Mandy sat up in bed. She had been awake for quite some time watching the invisible demons dancing on her bedroom ceiling. Now, as she finally roused herself and sat up in the bed watching the sun’s rays dance across the bare, hairy chest of the man who had shared her bed last night, she […]

He left me for another woman, then he married her. He thought he had been smart only to find out three months after his marriage to the other woman that she was incapable of having babies because of an abortion she had during high school. Now he says he wants me back and is promising me marriage. […]

It is with dignity, thanks, honor and pride that I sit here looking out of the high rise window of my corner office on the 11th floor of one of the tallest buildings in New York City. As I look down at the hustle and bustle going on in the city down below me, I am […]

“Reading your article stirred me to think deeper about the topic of self-love. Two things immediately came to mind: first, healthy self-love involves a personal journey of acceptance; and second, healthy self-love should ideally lead a person to want to share more love with others. Self-love is part of the process of learning to accept […]

Africa's First Ladies

It’s been eleven series since we first featured our first African First Lady at the beginning of 2012. Since then, we have garnered quite an impressive list of stories into the private and public lives of some of Africa’s most powerful women, including the causes that are dear to their hearts. What we have found […]

While researching the first lady featured this week, I was personally overjoyed to find that she not only is a first lady who embodies the ideal of today’s African woman, but she is also the youngest first lady on the African continent – in her mid-thirties. She is us! (The main AFRIKAN GODDESS MAGAZINE demographic […]

Claudine Dominique Ouattara is the current First Lady of Cote d’Ivoire, and founder of the Children of Africa Foundation, an organization which aims to assist distressed children in Africa not only through various charitable actions and donations, but also through sponsoring well-known and accountable charity groups. Claudine Dominique Ouattara was born on December 16th, 1953 […]

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Have you always wanted to know how to count from 1 to 20 in another language besides French and Spanish? Well, now you can. Ghanaian author and new mom, Sandra Amoako, has recently created the first book in the “What’s That?” series of bilingual, children’s books. “What’s That? My First Numbers in Twi and English” […]

The movie and music industry is rich with actors with high intellectual abilities such as Juliana Kanyomozi, Namubiru in Uganda. These females are loud and sexy. I bet you, it is almost impossible to watch a film without a sexual scene and one where the female is subordinate. Again there are very few advertisements without […]

Atekit is glued to the sofa reading a novel entitled “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka. She is preparing to sit for her final UCE exams at the end of the year. ‘The Concubine’, by Elechi Amadi; ‘Things Fall Apart’ by Chinua Achebe are part of the set of books examinable by the […]